A dishevelled playwright sits at a rickety desk in his jammy-bottoms and a rumpled blazer, grinding a fist into his hair and trying to write a whodunnit. Shiny red apples dot the surfaces of a ...

Simon Godwin’s production of Richard II opens with an apt, if unscripted, prologue: the coronation of a ten-year-old king, frail and golden-headed, whose main challenge is not the acceptance of a ...

Jonathan Munby’s production of Shakespeare’s most roundedly accessible play was met with delight by a committed audience, corralled inside the Globe’s thatched amphitheatre. The main ...